E-40 News

E-40 News

This week in the Billboard 200, Bruno Mars debuted at #2 with his newest LP&nbsp;24K Magic, joining A Tribe Called Quest, Rae Sremmurd, and Drake in the top 10. Behind them in the top 50 are Rihanna, Travis Scott, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin, Kanye West, and Solange. The only other debut on the chart this week is E-40, whose&nbsp;The D-Boy Diary: Book 1&nbsp;comes in at #178, but It should be interesting next&nbsp;week&nbsp;to see if The Weeknd does indeed scoop the #1 spot for which he's projected.

Earlier this year, HNHH launched&nbsp;a Spotify playlist called&nbsp;FIRE EMOJI: The Hottest Hip Hop Songs Right Now.&nbsp;
The playlist is updated on a daily basis. It lives on Spotify and thus is inherently imperfect, because not all super-hot hip hop songs have been added to Spotify.&nbsp;Still, the playlist is generally representative of the best new releases in hip hop and R&amp;B.

No stranger to the double disc albums, Bay Area legend E-40 has been busy promoting his new album The D-Boy Diary 1 &amp; 2 for over the past month or so, releasing tracks like &ldquo;On One&rdquo; &amp; &ldquo;Savage&rdquo; in the process, but now the time has come.

Though he may not be getting his deserved exposure outside of the trap world, one can feel that big things await Peewee Longway. He's had a prolific year, dropping his album,&nbsp;Mr. Blue Benjamin, in January, and then his&nbsp;MPA 3&nbsp;mixtape, which brought shine upon his MPA clique, in June.

Earlier this year, HNHH launched&nbsp;a Spotify playlist called&nbsp;FIRE EMOJI: The Hottest Hip Hop Songs Right Now.&nbsp;
The playlist is updated on a daily basis. It lives on Spotify and thus is inherently imperfect, because not all super-hot hip hop songs have been added to Spotify.&nbsp;Still, the playlist is generally representative of the best new releases in hip hop and R&amp;B.

E-40 is no stranger when it comes to releasing double disc albums, and he's using the approach once again for a new album, The D-Boy Diary Books 1 &amp; 2, which he just announced today.
The OG Bay Area rapper will be giving fans two albums, each complete with 21 records and quite a few features. Guest appearances come from G-Eazy, Nef the Pharaoh, Gucci Mane, Casey Veggies, AD, Joe Moses, Lil B, K Camp and many more.

In terms of an artist gaining direct access to&nbsp;his or her&nbsp;fans, there's no better social media platform than Snapchat. Indeed, the app has caused artists to blur the line between their public and private personas.

HNHH recently launched&nbsp;a Spotify playlist called&nbsp;FIRE EMOJI: The Hottest Hip Hop Songs Right Now.&nbsp;
The playlist is updated on a daily basis. It lives on Spotify and thus is inherently imperfect, because not all super-hot hip hop songs have been added to Spotify.&nbsp;Still, the playlist is generally representative of the best new releases in hip hop.

One week ago Snoop Dogg shared the cover art&nbsp;to his upcoming album Cool Aid. It hearkens back to the artwork for his earlier releases, using an illustrated style and featuring the Doggfather himself in canine form. Now we have the full 20-song tracklist to share.

Freddie Gibbs made headlines recently for stating in an interview that he considers himself on the same level as artists like J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar. Whether or not you agree with him, Reddit user SaucyMustard has pointed out&nbsp;that Gangsta Gibbs may be subtly calling out TDE artist Isaiah Rashad in an Instagram post this morning.

G-Eazy is about to have a moment. He drops his sophomore albumWhen It's Dark Out&nbsp;on December 4th, and&nbsp;his world tour&nbsp;with A$AP Ferg and Nef the Pharaoh kicks off at the top of 2016. This afternoon, he came through with the official album tracklist, and it looks very promising indeed.&nbsp;

Almost certainly E-40's biggest hit from the past year is his silly and infectious "My Dick"-esque anthem "Choices (Yup)." To commemorate the song's success, Forty Fonzarelli released a deluxe "Choices" remix bundle pack.
The bundle features 5 songs, 4 remixes and the original. 40 busted out the big guns, scoring verses from fellow veterans 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, and Rick Ross as well as 20-something mainstays French Montana, Migos, and Kid Ink. One of the remixes is Houston centric, with verses from Slim Thug, Z-Ro, and Kirk Bangz.

G-Eazy has been taking his time with the announcements for his sophomore effort, which he recently revealed is titled When It's Dark Out. The rapper also unveiled a release date of December 4th, and the lead single "Me, Myself &amp; I,"&nbsp;featuring singer Bebe Rexha.

Last year, L.A.-based producer Salva became a household name in hip-hop circles by scoring collabs with a diverse list of artists that included Schoolboy Q, Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs, A$AP Ferg, Kurupt, Problem and E-40. With his all-over-the-place&nbsp;Peacemaker&nbsp;tape and its "Old English" single, the beatmaker gained himself a much larger following in the rap world, and so we had to hit him up to be featured on "Behind The Beat."

E-40 is still a relevant rapper in 2015, but is everyone aware of this dude's tenure in the game? The 47-year-old rapper has been crushing it since 1990 with his flamboyant style of rapping.
He stayed in the underground until about 1995 when his album In A Major Way&nbsp;was released. Slowly, people started catching on to the west coast sound, where a quirky style of funky raps were taking over.

Every March, the relatively small city of Austin, Texas&nbsp;bursts at the seams for a few weeks to host South by Southwest (SXSW), a music, arts and film festival put on in&nbsp;venues around the downtown. Thousands of artists and industry folk alike make the trek down south, and so the festival's schedule is a jam-packed, often chaotic affair. As the music kicks off in just a little over a week, we're breaking down the ten most promising showcases that have been announced thus far, including two we're&nbsp;sponsoring.

Ah, what could've been. The most recent discovered treasure penned by Tupac Shakur is a letter to his friend Big Lock. Unfortunately, there's no date on the letter, but in it, Pac tells Lock that his record sold five million copies, so it's safe to assume he means All Eyez On Me, which was released February 1996. He would be killed in September of the same year.

In its four-plus decades of existence, hip-hop has always been steadily evolving. Like all evolutionary paths, hip-hop’s hasn’t moved in a straight line. For every decision that moved the genre forward as a whole, there were artistic niches and splinter groups that either went flourished before rapidly going extinct or moved on into their own lane entirely.
In this series, we’ll look to introduce our readers to some of the more interesting branches and subgenres that sprouted from the hip-hop family tree and give a primer of some essential tracks.